Capt. Neem-Oil Thursday Surf & Culture Report
Regarding yesterday's piggy photo...
Boomfwappa says: where's the Bacon.....was that a quad pig.... No arms & legs?
(If you cook the piggy correctly the feets jump right off and end up at the bottom of the cooker/pit. Then you take'm and make "pigglsed pigsfeets." Ed.)
Bringing charismatic greetings the sun leapt into a hazy sky this morning with 12 miles visibility. Winds started on right away, at 3.4kts and a light ripple on the water. Should get up to around 10kts by the pm. Air temp is 69.0° and the water is 67.1°, although Willy Brown told us that he's been swimming through some 70° degree patches between the HB & MB piers. Low tide is at 8:17am +0.8' and high tide will follow at 3:15pm +5.2'. We have a SSW swell out of 212° at 2.6', but most of that is south, so we're only getting about 1' and poor to poorer shape. If anything happens it'll be at the tide push, but it's pretty meager... .
From Big Daddy...
One dark night outside a small town in Minnesota , a fire started inside the local chemical plant and in a blink of an eye it exploded into massive flames. The alarm went out to all the fire departments for miles around.
When the volunteer fire fighters appeared on the scene, the chemical company president rushed to the fire chief and said, "All our secret formulas are in the vault in the center of the plant. They must be saved. I will give $50,000 to the fire department that brings them out intact." But the roaring flames held the firefighters off. Soon more fire departments had to be called in as the situation became desperate. As the firemen arrived, the president shouted out that the offer was now $100,000 to the fire department who could bring out the company's secret files. From the distance, a lone siren was heard as another fire truck came into sight. It was the nearby Norwegian rural township volunteer fire company composed mainly of Norwegians over the age of 65. To everyone's amazement, that little run-down fire engine roared right past all the newer sleek engines that were parked outside the plant..
Without even slowing down it drove straight into the middle of the inferno. Outside, the other firemen watched as the Norwegian old timers jumped off right in the middle of the fire fought it back on all sides. It was a performance and effort never seen before. Within a short time, the Norske old timers had extinguished the fire and had saved the secret formulas. The grateful chemical company president announced that for such a superhuman feat he was upping the reward to $200,000, and walked over to personally thank each of the brave fire fighters. The local TV news reporter rushed in to capture the event on film, asking their chief, "What are you going to do with all that money?"
"Vell," said Ole Larsen, the 70-year-old fire chief, "Da first thing ve gonna do is fix da brakes on dat focking truck!"
(When told as a Portagee joke, they cook a couple of buckets of linguica first and then fight it as an oil fire... Ed.)
Photo the second features LoLa next to her dad, Jack Carlisle's, surfboard. Circa the 1930's he primarily rode the Cove. He went surfing one sunny December day in 1941 and came in to find that Pearl Harbor had been attacked. He joined up to keep the South Shore from being invaded. It ended up that December 7th, 1941 would be the last time he rode that board! He kept it in his garage for years until the Professor convinced him that they should restore it. Jack would have been a hundred years old last May!
Desperately trying to show some affinity for wood, the Professor made a stab at trying to help Ché shape this balsa twinny that now hangs in the Professor's den. Originally, a Velzy-Jacobs pig, the balsa was so old it was almost as light as foam. Will he take it out? There are some noises to that effect...
The Professor!!
